The complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, stores the system date and time as well as other settings on your Gateway laptop. The CMOS is powered by a small battery. If this battery runs low ...
I've got a 7 year old Lenovo Thinkpad x230 and my gf has the same year Dell Inspiron. Thinking of replacing the CMOS batteries. They both work just fine after replacing spinning rust with SSDs. The ...
I've an 8 yr old Sony Vaio laptop, model PCG-F590 (a.k.a PCG-9201), which for practical purposes, stopped working 3 weeks ago. The computer boots into XP, but during the login screen, or shortly after ...
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CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. Even though it’s a small chip on your motherboard, it does a lot ...